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by rubyn00bie 1862 days ago
> Mix.install

This is game changing for me (my life is boring). I totally didn't even know this was coming. It's like unexpected Christmas! For folks not in the know, it's been kind of a PITA to have packages loaded in an Elixir repl without a proper project. This should enable a lot more developer tooling to exist too; I'm stoked because I have one tool in particular that's going to be immediately be useful thanks to this change.
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patrickdavey 1861 days ago
Does that mean you're going to be able to drop into an Iex.pry session right in the middle of an exs script without having to wrap it all in a project?

I always found I had to do that and found it quite annoying (working through adventofcode with elixir..)

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blandflakes 1862 days ago
Agreed that this is huge for quality of life - the ability of Ammonite (a Scala shell) to require remote dependencies in the script is amazing, compared to having to set up a whole project and build a jar.
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